How Page Ranks Works !
Page Rank, page rank and all web masters are talking about! What’s this other thing?
PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page’s importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page’s PageRank is calculated.
PageRank is Google’s way of deciding a page’s importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page’s ranking in the search results. It isn’t the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one.
How to increase your page rank ?
It’s easy to increase page rank, simply by linking to other sites and also to be linked (this is what we call links exchange). You can also use my future service : http://hittracker.freehostia.com that will help you increase your Page Rank. PR don’t mean that you have a huge number of visitor. You can have a high PR while you don’t have visitors. But it’s related! If you have a high PR Google will display your sites before others sites (that have less page ranks) Also if you have a high page rank this means that your site is linked by other sites that have high Page Rank (as they have a high page rank, they have good traffic) and then they direct traffic to you :) So as your Page Rank is higher as you have more visitors from sites that link to you and Google
How Page Rank is calculated ?
To calculate the PageRank for a page, all of its inbound links are taken into account. These are links from within the site and links from outside the site.
PR(A) = (1-d) + d(PR(t1)/C(t1) + … + PR(tn)/C(tn))
That’s the equation that calculates a page’s PageRank. It’s the original one that was published when PageRank was being developed, and it is probable that Google uses a variation of it but they aren’t telling us what it is. It doesn’t matter though, as this equation is good enough.
In the equation ‘t1 - tn’ are pages linking to page A, ‘C’ is the number of outbound links that a page has and ‘d’ is a damping factor, usually set to 0.85.
We can think of it in a simpler way:-
a page’s PageRank = 0.15 + 0.85 * (a “share” of the PageRank of every page that links to it)
“share” = the linking page’s PageRank divided by the number of outbound links on the page.
How to know Sites linking to me and the Page Rank ?
To know sites that link to your site, type “link:http://yoursite.com” in google and google will search for you.
For the Page Rank download Google ToolBar and it will displays Page Rank Information for each page
Written by Omar Abid on November 6th, 2007 with no comments.
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